Qt version first impressions

Tomaz Canabrava tcanabrava at kde.org
Tue Aug 27 13:19:55 UTC 2013


On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Pablo Wolter <pwolter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I installed the new Subsurface version today to try out the Qt look and
> feel. Overall looks great on Mac OS X 10.8
>
> I followed the interactions in the README file and found the pre-requisite
> of installing asciidoc is not yet added. I remembered from reading about it
> in the list. Not hard to figure out too but end users might not know that
> much?
>
> Also another thing that is really annoying, it deleted all my dives from
> the previous version without any warning. It should be added a data
> preservation mechanism. I understand this is the version to try but anyway
> … I didn't know how to have the two at the same time ….
>
> Anyway, I tried a few things.
>
> 1- Download a dive from my Pretel. Subsurface just can't see the Pretel
> whereas MacDive downloaded the dive without any trouble. I have
> successfully installed both libdivecomputer and subsurface from sources.
>

This seems like libdivecomputer related, let's wait for the libdivecomputer
to reply.

>
> 2- Try to import files … clicker the option under File and the application
> crashed.
>

hm... Shouldn't, I'll took a look at this today.


>
> 3- Try to add a dive. I just added the Location and Buddy. Did not
> realized you have to go to other tabs to add more info, clicked Save and
> now unable to edit that dive. Not intuitive. Why not put all the related
> information of the dive into one window? How can I edit that dive without
> reading the manual? In my opinion that should be very intuitive.
>

As soon as you click on anything on the panel, it should enable edition.


>
> 4- After being unable to edit the dive I clicked Open … don't know for
> what it is but the application crashed again.
>

hm... never tried that - will try and see what's going on.


> 5- Opened Subsurface again and my recently added dive wasn't there … the
> application looks like as when just installed.
>

most because you didn't saved the file ( just guessing ), the saving
mechanism should be still there.


>
> I think I'm going to stop here …. this is what happens I guess when you
> want to try the latest stuff ….
>
> Please take all this as constructive as my intention is. Sadly I'm not a
> developer but want this software a lot …
>

:)


>
> I'm itching to see the new dive planner because the previous (GTK version)
> was just not intuitive and I never was able to make it work.
>
> Thanks guys … so far the app looks great!!
>

Looks great but don't work as expected yet - I'm hurring here to make it
work, I promissed dirk to have a working app in one month, I just have two
weeks to make that promess to work right now. :)

Can you please do me a favor?

get a trac account at trac.hohndell http://trac.hohndel.org/ and create
those bug reports for me, it's easyer to follow there, since on email I can
lost it.

Thanks for your time testing the software,
I promess to fix those stuff as soon as I can.

Tomaz

>
> Saludos,
>
> Pablo Wolter
> pwolter at gmail.com
>
>
>
>
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